TOMLOV DM601 HDMI Digital Microscope - 1500X, 3 Lens, Coin View, 7" IPS Screen, 2K Camera, Biological, 64GB

I'm rating this as a 5-star product based on value for the money that I'm getting out of it. It's an excellent little microscope for my purposes. I'm not sure it is really all that great as far as either quality or features. You can make it much better than it is with a few additions.I'm a photographer, and I'm using this to check mineral specimens for certain features. I do this because it's much easier to use this device than to use my main camera, which usually requires a change of lenses between specimens, a complete reset of the lighting, etc. An actual lab microscope isn't much better as a time saver. This microscope allows me to find what I'm looking for quickly and easily, so I can make notes and then later do the serious photography.I added a lab stage to allow the specimens to be moved in very small increments. To keep it in place on the base, I put one of those sticky pads that you put on your dashboard to keep your phone in place. That works really well.I've also added a small macro ring light, which I already had. Sometimes I use the lights that came with the microscope because of reflections or the need for more of a side light, but the ring light is much better most of the time.A piece of velcro is helpful to keep the switch in place on the base. I put it on one corner.I believe, at the time I bought this, it said it came with a 32MB micro SD card. I received a 64MB card. Your mileage may vary on that I suppose.Ok now for the not-so-good. The height adjustment is mostly useless. It's way too course and it isn't smooth to adjust at all. If you unlock it completely using the knob on the back, the whole microscope and monitor will fall down. You pretty much have to hold the whole thing, make the adjustment, and lock the knob.The resolution is also below average. It's better than the little handheld ones, but that isn't saying much and it's mostly because the light on this one is much better. It's almost impossible to get something in focus all the way across the frame. Even completely flat subjects parallel to the base are blurry toward the edges, and usually it's more noticeable in one corner or another. Having said that, the monitor is nice and bright and easy to see. It can also be plugged in to a regular monitor via HDMI, but I found no benefit to that as the provided monitor gives an image that's at least as good.The instructions seemed to say that settings would be saved if you use the on/off switch on the monitor to turn it off, but it always turns on in video mode no matter what other mode you set it to before turning it off. I want it to stay in photo mode, but it won't. That's minor, but annoying anyway.The remote works well most of the time, but I've found it to be somewhat fiddly when taking images. Maybe I'm too close. Also, you can't take images when connected to a Windows computer and using it as a camera input. You have to take the images using Windows in that case, which puts them on the Camera Roll. I kind of wish it would work both ways at the same time, but I won't fault the company for that.I did have some fun with it by taking multiple images with slightly different focus of a mineral formation, and then using professional focus-stacking and processing software on the (somewhat crummy) JPG images it produced. The resulting photo had kind of a "so-bad-it's-good" quality and an ethereal look that was surprisingly satisfying. I might experiment more with that style just to see what it produces.Overall a good purchase for me, but I can certainly see where some users might experience frustration with some aspects of this microscope. Just don't expect too much and you'll probably be happy with it.

The DM601 is an excellent digital microscope with very clear images. I have spent approximately 10 hours using it and have tested every feature and lens on both PC and Mac. Every function works perfectly. With the three different lenses, it is very versatile and can be used for many things. You can easily see an entire silver dollar coin when you learn how to adjust the microscope. The images look great, and there is no noticeable lag when using for circuit boards. The user manual is well done and you will need to study it carefully to take advantage of all of the features. I appreciate the fact the package includes everything you need to get started - 64Gig SD card, nice basic microscope slide set, USB power supply. Bugs are fantastic on a big conference room screen using the HDMI connection!

I like this scope for viewing coins and such but did not need the biological samples or the other two lenses so another model might have been better from the same company. Annoyed that the micro SD card appears to go in backwards to make it difficult to go in and out but other than that I have taken thousands of pictures with it. The software interface could definitely use more work and I have not tried plugging it directly into a PC to see if it's useful as a camera there or not. A longer bar would be nice so that you can take a full picture of something larger than a silver dollar. While it feels like a pretty good quality the focus adjustment knob is a bit sloppy while adjusting it as it is a coarser adjustment then it should be. I also do not like the fact that has no Direct downward lighting like other models have, just the two stalk lights.Their customer service seems to be very nice and eager to help including offering to let you test new gear so that kept it 4 star.

I have advanced experience in science. I chose this because I have an 8YO daughter who is taking an interest in the sciences. She has been very curious about what things look like under a microscope. I am running with this. She isn't ready for a traditional one as it's hard to teach an 8YO who is wearing glasses how to focus with your eyes while using the macro and micro adjustments to improve slide focus. What I have found is that this is a quality microscope with some great advanced features for the price-point and it is very easy to teach. We have been able to provide great quality images. I would like to share them but they were blocked previously so I'll just say that the images in the description are representative.

This product seems to be very good quality. There is one negative to it. The two brackets that hold the item on the bed scratch the surface. They should put a pad under it to stop this from happening otherwise it takes good image in good video easy to put together. It has also three times digital zoom in addition to optical zoom. Mine arrived with a small imperfection on the bed that was touched up by a magic marker. See picture attached.

Item will not show full coin on display. Tried to view US Peace Dollar. Screen could not display full coin (cut off rim) and could not focus on what portion of the coin is did display.